The Beautiful Mistake have just released their new album, This is Who You Are. Really, we should be asking who they are. If you put their first two full-length releases side-by-side, it is a tale of two bands. Both albums are intense, and melodic, but their first, Light a Match For I Deserve to Burn, is decidedly heavier than the latest.

The last time that the band came through Cleveland, I had a chance to talk to lead singer Josh Hagquist and he talked a bit about the writing process for this new album. On their first album, he told me that a lot of people had lumped them in with a lot of the other scream/sing hybrid bands that came out during the same time period. He didn't name any bands, but I assume he was talking about Thursday, Finch, The Used, etc. I am sure it was frustrating to be immediately written off as another band that is "copying Thursday."

This time around, the band set out to make a record that was different than the first album while still being true to themselves and their influences. The result is This is Who You Are. Some fans will be turned off by the departure from the screaming, but overall, I think the band has created an album that is still melodic and intense. I am not sure if it lived up to the first record, Light a Match, but it is different enough that comparisons aren't really necessary.

The band's message this time around is a lot more celebratory and thankful. There is less of the self-loathing and anger that came through on Light a Match. The title track, which leads the album off opens very large and has an equally large chorus of, "We will fall, no longer this time." Just in case you thought the band was going soft, they blast the greatest riff of their lives on "The Separation." There are other highlights like "Wide-eyed and Wasted," and "My Reminder," but the album closer, "Cold Hands (For Dying Hearts)" is the one that will leave you wanting more.

(The Beautiful Mistake will be on the Van's Warped Tour this summer, and they are currently touring smaller clubs with Emery.)

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